UAV / Drone News

The latest UAS / UAV news for Autonomous and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Articles on commercial UAV, tactical drones and unmanned aerial systems, product launches and technological advances in UAV design and manufacture

Insitu Demonstrates GIS-Enabled UAS for Fighting Wildfires

Insitu has announced that together with Esri, a specialist spatial analytics company, it has successfully completed test flights for a...

Oct 04, 2017
Drones Used to Detect Human Life Signs

The University of South Australia (UniSA) has announced that it has demonstrated that drones can be used to detect human...

Oct 02, 2017
New Adaptable UAV Concept Switches Between Fixed-Wing and Rotary Flight

BAE Systems has announced that, together with students from Cranfield University, it has revealed a new technology concept – named...

Oct 02, 2017
AP Equipment Financing Develops Commercial Drone Funding Solution

AP Equipment Financing, a leading provider of flexible financing solutions for manufacturers and vendors of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), as...

Sep 30, 2017
LiDAR-Equipped Hybrid Long Distance UAV Unveiled

Phoenix LiDAR Systems and JOUAV have announced the TerraHawk CW-30, a custom LiDAR equipped version of JOUAV’s CW-30 hybrid VTOL/fixed-wing...

Sep 30, 2017
Pix4D Launches Drone Mapping Software Certification Program

Pix4D has announced that it has launched a certification program for its Pix4dmapper drone mapping photogrammetry software, which will allow...

Sep 30, 2017
NOAA Uses UAVs to Track and Model Hurricane Maria

Raytheon has announced that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has used six of the company’s Coyote unmanned aerial...

Sep 28, 2017
Trimble Announces New Base Station for UAV Mapping

Trimble has announced the release of its new GNSS Smart Target Base Station for high-accuracy mapping from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles...

Sep 28, 2017
AUDS Counter-Drone System Upgraded for Vehicle Deployment and Anti-Swarm Attacks

The developers of the AUDS counter-UAS defence system have announced that it has been enhanced for deployment on military and...

Sep 26, 2017
Honeywell Launches New UAV Industrial Inspection Service

Honeywell has announced that it has launched its first commercial unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) inspection service, the Honeywell InView inspection...

Sep 26, 2017
New Mapping Drone Features 3G/4G Communications and Onboard Processing

Delair has announced that it will introduce its next-generation professional unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for survey-grade photogrammetric mapping, the UX11,...

Sep 26, 2017
Aurora Flight Sciences Wins Swiss Innovation Award

Aurora Flight Sciences has announced that the company has been awarded with a 2017 Tell Award, which honours U.S. companies...

Sep 26, 2017
Long-Endurance Portable UAV Introduced for Commercial Applications

Skyeton has announced the introduction of its new ACS series of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The ACS is a modular...

Sep 26, 2017
PrecisionHawk Developing Survey-Grade Drone LiDAR

PrecisionHawk has announced that it is preparing to provide its customers with a drone LiDAR solution that matches or exceeds...

Sep 26, 2017
DJI Outlines Solutions For Managing And Monitoring Unmanned Aircraft Traffic

DJI has announced that it has presented a robust system for managing and monitoring drone traffic in two white papers...

Sep 25, 2017
OpenWorks Engineering Announces Automatic Drone Capture System

OpenWorks Engineering has announced the launch of a new technology that allows authorities the ability to remotely and automatically capture...

Sep 25, 2017
Threod Systems Develops New Tactical Fixed-Wing UAS

Threod Systems has announced that the company is developing an updated variant of its Stream small tactical unmanned aircraft system...

Sep 25, 2017
Drone Station Automatically Swaps Batteries and Packages

Matternet, developer of an autonomous drone logistics platform, has unveiled the Matternet Station, which enables fully-automated ground operations for Matternet...

Sep 23, 2017
Volz Servos Achieve Over 200,000 Flight Hours in Aerosonde SUAS

Volz Servos has announced that the company’s servos have successfully flown over 200,000 hours in Textron Systems’ Aerosonde Mk4.7 Small...

Sep 22, 2017
Lockheed Martin Develops Counter-UAS Laser Weapon

Lockheed Martin has announced that it has developed a prototype laser weapon that incorporates an advanced system of sensors, software...

Sep 21, 2017
Skyfront Sets New Multirotor Drone Flight Record

Skyfront, a manufacturer of multirotor drones for the agriculture, energy and utility industries, has announced that its flagship drone has...

Sep 21, 2017
Sentera Agricultural Drone Captures RGB, Thermal and NVDI Data

Sentera has announced the new capability of its Omni quadcopter drone to capture three distinct crop health data measurements in...

Sep 20, 2017
AeroVironment Updates sUAS with Digital Data Link Technologies

AeroVironment has announced that it has integrated M1/M2/M5 radio frequencies into its Raven and Puma AE unmanned aircraft systems (UAS)...

Sep 20, 2017
UMS SKELDAR Achieves AS/EN 9100 Quality Standard

UMS SKELDAR, a developer of rotary Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) solutions, has announced that it has achieved the international accreditation...

Sep 19, 2017
GA-ASI Conducts First Flight from New Test and Training Center

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has announced that it has flown its first test flight out of its new...

Sep 19, 2017
Egan Airships Introduces Hybrid Plane-Blimp Unmanned Aircraft

Egan Airships has announced PLIMP, a plummet-proof, plane-blimp hybrid UAS (unmanned aircraft system) that can maneuver and move quickly like...

Sep 17, 2017
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